ASIN: B07GZN9187
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 132
SEPTEMBER 1ST 1923 . . .At 11.58 the greatest earthquake ever known ripped Tokyo apart. Damage was inestimable.The ground shook and opened, buildings crashed, roads buckled, trees were torn from their roots. At once fire shot up from the matchbox Japanese houses. All through the afternoon, dazed survivors wandered the streets. Then at dusk the sky turned black and the wind rose to an inhuman screech, a blistering gale that flung the tongues of flame for miles. People fled to the harbour and were caught in horror as the tide raced out only to crash in again with all the force of a fifteen-foot tidal wave. Nature had gone mad—and escape was for the few.The Tokyo earthquake of 1923, with the huge fires and tidal waves that followed it, destroyed two of the largest cities in the world. Tokyo and Yokohama experienced a devastation that almost dwarfs the atomic damage at Hiroshima and ...
